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December 11, 2018
Subject:
“This steam scheme is a dream!”
“An interactive map of the CMU Tunnels” is a nifty little piece of software from 1988, written in about 12 hours by then-student Dennis Moul for an application fair called StraightTalk. In Moul’s own words, it’s “very simple, basically a [now outdated] map with hot spots that take you to pages describing the entrance or tunnel you clicked on” and was “intended to demonstrate how you could do neat things with a Mac in a short period of time.” As someone who’s personally been known to venture beyond the well-trodden sidewalk on more than one occasion, I appreciated Moul’s thorough mapping of steam tunnel entrances, as well as his detailed descriptions about what an adventurer could expect to find at each. One of my favorites is “Tunnel Entrance D2,” said to be “securely locked,” although “there is a hole in the plaster ceiling of the stairwell, and it might be possible to enter through it.” Moul’s Disclaimer and Copyright Notice explicitly references the Student Handbook, which “explicitly states that ‘...students found in the steam tunnels risk expulsion’’; however, I am glad to say I’m not a Carnegie Mellon Student [or at least not yet]. If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be taking a trip to Pittsburgh now.